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Friday, May 05, 2017

Oren Hazan supports Marine Le Pen

Here's another item on how Israeli MK Oren Hazan has boldly defied Likud officials opposed to communicating with Front National and offered an endorsement for Marine Le Pen as president for France:

Hazan has been a Member of the Israeli Knesset since 2015 and has been considered somewhat of a firebrand in Israeli politics. The MK has been a keen supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump during the presidential campaign last year.

Despite a negative reaction from many in his own party who have called for him to be excluded from future elections, Hazan has defended his remarks. In an interview with Israeli broadcaster, i24 News Hazan said: “A lot of other members of the House say in private that they support Marine Le Pen but are afraid to [say so publicly].”

“Marine Le Pen took all the bad, anti-Semitic things her father did and kicked him out of his own party,” Hazan added saying Le Pen had transformed the Front National and manoeuvred it away from its controversial past.

“When I put my support in Marine Le Pen I looked at the State of Israel’s interests for safety, security, fighting radical Islam, and fighting terror,” he said.

“In a few years if nothing changes France is going to be a radical Islam[ic] country. We want to stop this. I don’t think the left side of the political map can do it. I believe she can do it.”

And with some support from overseas realists like Hazan, that could also be helpful, if she's elected. I have no doubt there's other people on the right in Israel who think Le Pen's done her best to steer the party away from her awful father's terrible conduct as best as possible, and they should not be condemned for supporting her either.

Now, we have to hope that, come Sunday, she has a chance of being elected, and that the left won't succeed in cheating at the ballot boxes in France.

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